We aren't park hopping, but this is helpful, thanks. Is Navi different from the Pandora ride? Thank you for clarifying.I think if you're trying to do all the rides at DAK, you're better off buying an ILL for Flight of Passage than Genie+. I'd only buy G+ if you're going to park hop so you can stack for afternoon.
Right now, Everest is closed (that would be an ILL anyways usually) and Kali River Rapids has no line in the winter usually. So you'd be buying G+ for Dinosaur, Navi River Journey and Kilimanjaro Safaris, and that's it. You shouldn't have a problem getting those done in less than 3 hours via standby, particularly if you rope drop or go in late afternoon. Navi will be the longest line so would prioritize that.
Our current plan for our next trip is to get G+ for Navi and ILL for FoP at 7am, standby Safaris, and skip Dinoland entirely. After we tap for Navi we'll start stacking LLs for Magic Kingdom for park hopping. Show up shortly after rope drop, do the 3 rides above, tour the animal exhibits, lunch at Tiffins, then hop to MK.
There are 2 rides in Pandora: Avatar Flight of Passage and Navi River Journey. Flight of Passage is the more "thrilling", E-ticket attraction where you ride a banshee in a simulated Pandora world, and is only available for individual lightning lane purchase, it's not on Genie +.We aren't park hopping, but this is helpful, thanks. Is Navi different from the Pandora ride? Thank you for clarifying.
No problem, I was the one who messed up and accidentally posted twice when editing my original post! (not sure how to delete).Feel free to delete this if you need to. I apologize for the double post. I feel like I have my answer now. Thank you.
Is it worth it to purchase Genie + for one day at AK? Also, if we do get Genie, what is the best strategy for using it at AK? Thank you!
Sorry to be vague! When I said pandora ride I meant Avatar Flight of Passage. Also we don’t do the parks early. We arrived after 12 pm and we were still able to do it all without G+ but we typically stay till close and we did buy the one ILL for Avatar.We aren't park hopping, but this is helpful, thanks. Is Navi different from the Pandora ride? Thank you for clarifying.
We bought ILL$ for FoP and also G+ at DAK. We used G+ only for Safari and NRJ, but we felt it was worth it. Both had long lines when we were there and we didn't have to wait in them. Well, "worth it" is very subjective. If you don't want to stand in long lines and don't mind paying (or don't mind too much!), then, imho, G+ can be helpful in every park but Epcot, where we found it completely unnecessary.
Remy is an ILL$, but you could use for Frozen and Soarin’.Wouldn't G+ be useful for Frozen, Remy, and Soarin'?
Frozen is also ILL$ as of now.Remy is an ILL$, but you could use for Frozen and Soarin’.
I think if you're trying to do all the rides at DAK, you're better off buying an ILL for Flight of Passage than Genie+. I'd only buy G+ if you're going to park hop so you can stack for afternoon.
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Our current plan for our next trip is to get G+ for Navi and ILL for FoP at 7am, standby Safaris, and skip Dinoland entirely. After we tap for Navi we'll start stacking LLs for Magic Kingdom for park hopping. Show up shortly after rope drop, do the 3 rides above, tour the animal exhibits, lunch at Tiffins, then hop to MK.
The wait for Lion King the other day was insane! If I'd known, I would have 100% used LL for that. We ended up skipping it because the line was so long. We heard another person ask the "End of the Line" CM if they thought they'd get in and the CM said "maybe for the next show" - as in, the one after the one everyone was lined up for.Also keep in mind... that they have been reducing the number of Festival of the Lion King shows due to staffing. So if that is something you really want to do.... that can end up being a long wait too!
We plan to get Genie+ on our AK day only if we plan to hop so we can use it at another park.
Right now we are planning to purchase LL for Flight of Passage, get Genie+ so that we can use that for Safari, and Navi, and..... if needed... Dinosaur and Lion King. Then hop to MK at 2. The only thing at MK that may already be out of LL is Jungle Cruise. But if it looks like we can do Dinosaur and LK without Genie+ we will book Jungle Cruise while still at AK. It really involves watching wait times on MDE the days before our trip and closely the day of.
It really is a strategy thing!!!
The one good thing about Genie+ is that you can book at another park prior to actually getting to that park.
Wouldn't G+ be useful for Frozen, Remy, and Soarin'?
We rope-dropped Soarin' and purchased an ILL$ for Remy (never again) and are not fans of Frozen, so we didn't feel the need for G+ at Epcot. The waits for everything else we wanted to do were very short.Wouldn't G+ be useful for Frozen, Remy, and Soarin'?